Example sentences for: jumping

How can you use “jumping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We will continue running faster and jumping further for a good long while to come.

  • . By jumping out of airplanes in his 70s, Bush continues to battle the Wimp Factor.

  • Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)

  • The wall started out as barbed wire and road blocks, but refugees continued to make their way through the barriers, by swimming through sewers and canals and jumping from buildings and railway bridges — risking life and limb for freedom and democracy.

  • The chuckle-headed old king, jumping from planes, bouncing grandchildren on his knee.


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